not -- halfde be may not be all that well. business is thriving in the stock market is up, but the worker is not improving. income is stagnating in the middle class -- and the middle class gold age and did some years ago. can the u.s. remain competitive with that divergence? sharedxplain the term prosperity. guest: one of the things we know is there is a chum in this economic anxiety around the country. ,f you travel around as i did people really do not think that the american dream is available to them. more than 50% of the people in the country think that their children might not be better off than they are. so what is causing this anxiety? really it is because this whole fabric that we had in postwar america where there was opportunity and if you worked hard that you can get ahead, that feels less true. you know what? it is lester. -- less true. if you look at income, it has not increased for the segment. in fact, 1% of the country has taken a very large share in the past 20 years of all the gains. so the average american f

washington monument, but for the people who live here , there was lots of concern about the damage. , halfd a matching pledge of the $16 million, i understand. david: yes, i initially asked them if i could put the money to fix it. they tell me what it would cost and i said no problem. but then later, some of the members of congress wanted to match it or be involved. i think it was a good idea to have a public-private match. so it worked out. it to go out to get it done, but it is incredible view and i climbed to the top and looked at the whole of washington. it was quite inspiring. susan: i heard you also left her initials up there. david: well, time will tell. you can get up there. it was the tallest building in the world when it was built, and it is still the tallest obelisk in the world. it will probably be the tallest structure in washington forever. susan: let all the river to the mansion. that has been in disrepair for quite a long time. and it's, of course, is an iconic spot because of the view of washington. what do you want to accomplish their -- there? david: it is also associated